Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Cooking Forum => Topic started by: Pat B on September 22, 2022, 05:39:21 pm
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...to get the fixin's for my tomato sauce.
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Marcia and I went to the farmers market yesterday like we have for quite a while this time of year. We bought 2, 25# boxes of Roma tomatoes, 10 bell peppers, 10 onions and 6 garlic bulbs. Today I jumped into the first box. I spent most of this morning blanching the tomatoes so the skin peels off easily. Then cut up 4 bells, 4 onions and a garlic bulb each and got it all cooking in 2 big pots. You can see the tomatoes being blanched in the pot on the right.
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Cooked these down for a couple of hours. After these cool I'll put them in freezer bags and freeze them for later use.
This was just one 25# box. I'll do the other one tomorrow.
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Looks good. One 25# box a day is enough. Last Saturday I did stewed tomatoes, canned 13 jars.
Thanks Leroy
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I put up 10 freezer bags in the freezer this morning with a little left over and am cooking up another 25# today. Also I'm roasting 10# of tomatillo with chili powder, cumin, salt , black pepper, garlic, onions, bell peppers that will be a salsa verde. -C-
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Here's the tomatillo salsa before roasting...
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after roasting...
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...and the end result...
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I put my salsa verde in half pint canning jars today, put in the hot water bath...and the bottoms of 3 of the 7 jars broke out dumping the contents in the water bath. That was about 40% of what I made down the drain. (A) :o I guess the salsa was too cold when I put it in the hot water. Anyway here's what I got in the end...
I put my salsa verde in half pint canning jars today, put in the hot water bath...and the bottoms of 3 of the 7 jars broke out dumping the contents in the water bath. That was about 40% of what I made down the drain. :knothead: I guess the salsa was too cold when I put it in the hot water. Anyway here's what I got in the end...
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Pat had the same thing happen with 2 qts of peaches :'(, at $48 dollars a bushel I was ripped. Look up thermal shock in your canning book, Cool Canning jars put into to hot of water. First time for me losing any jars :o Bob
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Me too, Bob. I had the salsa in the frig over night and I guess it was too cold to put in the boiling water. I didn't even think about it until I saw salsa in the water. Oh well, $h1t happens!